SK Gaming is today officially announcing its partnership with Old Generations (oGs) which will see world famous SC2 players and Yoon-Yeol 'NaDa' Lee representing SK Gaming at events held outside of South Korea. At domestic events, in South Korea, MC and NaDa will play as oGs players, but with an SK Gaming patch on their uniforms. At non-Korean events they will wear SK Gaming uniforms.

NaDa's first event representing SK Gaming will be Assembly Summer 2011 in Finland.

"Today the players MC and NaDa are joining the partnership with SK Gaming and we are really happy for them and thankful to SK for this big opportunity. I will do all the best I can to ensure that both players are bringing good results for the partnership of SK Gaming and oGs."

"Adding those two names to the SK roster and entering this partnership with oGs is one of the most exciting steps SK has taken in the past few years. Ever since we signed Korean players for our RTS section, it has been a blast. We are more than happy to present those two to our community and we are hungry for StarCraft II titles!"

Min-Sik "reis" Ko, player manager of SK Gaming, added:

"I am very happy to welcome those two big names in SC:BW and SC2 history to SK Gaming. I know both privately and I know that both are really nice guys and very ambitious. It's an honor for me to work with both from now on and thanks to oGs for the cooperation."

MC is widely considered to be one of the very best players in the world, if not the best, and has the accomplishments to back up that reputation. He has won two GSL titles, the Dreamhack Invitational and Copenhagen Games. He also placed 3rd-4th at the GSL World Championship, 3rd at MLG Columbus, 3rd at HomeStory Cup III and 2nd at NASL.

NaDa is one of the most famous names in StarCraft history, second perhaps only to that of BoxeR. After the aforementioned 'Emperor' NaDa was the second truly great player to grace Brood War, and is considered second in the lineage of bonjwas who dominated the game. With a record six individual titles and ten finals appearances he still holds a number of records to this day. He was the first player, and now one of four, to ever win the golden mouse, for three OSL titles.

Since switching to SC2 NaDa has proven to be one of the most consistent players in terms of performance level as he has made the Ro8 of GSL's Code S three times, finishing 3rd-4th last season.

I like this move what so ever, I have to admit that this move was very desperate and frankly I couldn't care less. most of the big organisations are greedy and want the best players, Especially since SK always had the best players in pretty much every game except for SC2 :) I like the idea of new uprising players. You can thumb me down all you want, but the community is just way to negative about stuff sometimes

If they were fully signed with SK, they would have to pay salarys which are more expensive than all of their squads combined.

Nice advertise for the sponsors though, real fans can only hope that maybe this way SK might be able to build an new own team in the future again. (that is IF they can get their financial situation back on track)

i dont like this move by SK, people will consider both of them as oGs players ... even at foreign tournaments ...
this is just very weird cooperation i doubt it will last long :X
but at least it is a good advertisement for SK, whole SC2 scene is talking about it :)

SK IS A JOKE. How can such a unsustainable team try to gain image by sponsoring 2 players, SPONSORING because they are not SK, they only wear SK t-shirts.

SK = CS not starcraft, you will never be part of what we consider the most clean e-sport. This news made me sick, and I will simply watch less SC2 thanks to you... keep out of SC2 everything you touch dies or gets worsen.

Really, really bad move. Get a team and make your own players... what a lack of self preservation and self respect. You can't even make your own team without renting players. You are a disgrace for e-sports.

BY THE WAY! NADA and MC are from the team oGs, korean team which works together with teamliquid. Teamliquid is the one of the teams that really made the effort to make this game global, sk.. well lets just say they neved did.

For people who want to know more, make a small search about NADA he has alot of history, however not so much as Slayers_Boxer who is also playing SC2. I'm guessing HE WOULD NEVER be hired by SK because he would say NO WAY SIR! AM I RIGHT?

If SK didn't waste money on titles like "console racing" and bloodline champions and actually supported a real e-Sport GLOBAL game like SC2 sooner they wouldn't have to "rent" players from other teams. Face it, you were late to the party and the cake has already been eaten. Now SK looks pathetic, forced to borrow players people will never recognize as a part of the SK organization and they have lost an opportunity to make the EU scene better.

I will be looking forward to seeing [Red]NaDa come to foreign events, not SK|NaDa.

If you are getting offensive against SK's SC2 thingy I don't mind that much, but if you are getting offensive against "console racing" I have to step in. Of course racing is a small thing in eSports, but I blame guys like you who are thinking that SC2 and CS are the only competitive games out there. There is no other genre which connects eSports to the real world more than racing games. I have raced against so many racing pro's (real F1 drivers, GT1 drivers, IndyCar,.. etc.) and even they take "playing computer games" serious. Dale Earnhardt JR. for example is currently one of the best virtual oval racers, and you as an American should know him.

And as it is still a small thing in eSports SK does not have to put that much money into it, but the things you can win by playing racing games are almost better than in Starcraft tournaments. BMW M6 in 2007, VW Scirocco in 2008, Chevrolet HHR in 2009, Nissan Z350 in 2010, Mercedes SLS just a week ago have all been main prizes for ESPORTS tournaments in racing I know about. Furthermore things like GT Academy (played on a console) bring virtual racers into real cockpits and let them become real racers racing in 24h of Dubai and 24h of LeMans. Just wanted to make things clear and that having a racing team is not obviously a waste of money.

"Adding those two names to the SK roster and entering this partnership with oGs is one of the most exciting steps SK has taken in the past few years."

What's exciting about it? 90% of the community either laughs or sighs, if not both, at it. SK might help the global scene or whatever by sending NaDa to major tournaments, but as everybody else with some sense has stated.. nice sponsordeal, didnt know SK was into charity (if they end up actually paying), but aqcuisition.. haha, hell no.. only Mr.Müller will see them as SK-players

I really hate the fact there is a time limit on editing... really do...

As i read some of these comments I do have to say that SK really does need to try and hold tryouts for more members of the SC2 division. I really dont mind u using nada or MC in fact I think it will be good to see MC and NaDa in more international events. However some of these comments are right, not using a Euro or American based team does hurt us. Because there is TONS of talent out there.. and just giving them a practice house will only make them better. Just my 2cents they dont matter Just thought I would thro that in.